“Perhaps of all creations of man language is the most astonishing” – Giles Lytton Strachey.

During thousands years of existing on the Earth man created lots of things such as cars, telephone, Internet, atomic bombs, but the most astonishing creation of man is considered language. Language is a phenomenon which has different types and that is why it is available to everybody; its origin is not known yet; language carries information about the person who speaks it and that is why it is considered to be the most astonishing creation ever.

Language is available for everybody: for those who have ability of speaking a language or some of them and for those who don’t have ability of speaking, but who use gestures to send the information. People can communicate verbally, sending and receiving oral messages, as well as non-verbally, using gestures, posture, facial expressions. At the same time people can use both types and communicate verbally and non-verbally at the same time, as non-verbal message compliments, contradicts, regulates repeats and substitutes the verbal one.

As well as the appearance of the world and of a man is unknown, nobody can tell exactly where and how language came into being. Scientists seem to know everything about the language, its types, peculiarities, total number of languages in the world; however, nobody knows the nature of human languages. There exist lots of hypothesis about the origin of language such as a Divine hypothesis, a Ding-Dong hypothesis, Lying hypothesis and the others; however there is no theory with strong evidence of how and when the language came into being. This is one more reason to consider language an astonishing phenomenon.

Language carries information about the person who speaks it as people usually pay attention on how a person speaks. If what a person wears reflects what he/she is, then the style of speech indicates a person’s thinking. Through the manner of speaking one can judge about his/her interlocutor’s mood and intensions. One can never hide his/her intensions only by the words he/she utters; one should imply soft intonation, gestures, smile, and eye contact.

Language, which is a system that combines thoughts, oral message, gestures and written symbols, is that helps people fulfil their primary need – need of communication. It is one of the most astonishing creations of a man, since nobody can live without it and everybody appreciates it.